LESSON PLAN
TEACHER: DATE: TIME: SCHOOL: CLASS:
Class profile: 15 year-olds, A2B1
Teaching unit : Module 10 Imagination; Success!
Type of lesson : Skills work
Sources: Challenges 4 Students' Book; Workbook; Teacher's Handbook
Aims and objectives : Read and listen to the Challenges story; learn expressions for conversation; listen to an everyday conversation
Teaching methods : conversation, presentation, reading comprehension, listening comprehension, speaking, writing
Class management : whole class, individual work, pair work
Teaching aids, materials
and equipment : students book, workbook, CD; board, chalk, CD-player
STAGES
TIMING
Aims and Class organization procedures and activities Interaction Teaching Possible problems
objectives aids and and solutions
materials
1
partIntroductory
Homework check.
Introduce the WB
topic, elicit ideas Warm-up:
and vocabulary, Exercise 1: Check that students remember what happened in the last episode. In groups or as a class, T-SS SB 5 min
arouse interest students look at the photos and guess what happened after the last episode. Encourage them to suggest
as much detail as they can,
e.g. what happened when Ellie and Steve were at the factory at lunchtime? Who contacted the police?
Where did the police arrest the woman?
Check reading Exercise 2: Play the recording for students to read and listen and check their guesses from Exercise 1. T-SS
Main part
comprehension Encourage students to. guess the meaning of. any new vocabulary, e.g. 'heavies', 'illegal'.
Present target Exercise 3: Students work individually or in pairs, referring back to how the Key Expressions are used T-SS
language in the dialogue and deciding why we use them. S-S
Exercise 4: Read through the cues in the diagram with the class. Build up an example conversation
with the class, Ask two students to read aloud the example question and answer. Then, elicit T-SS SB
Practise target suggestions to continue the conversation, following the diagram. Students work in pairs, making S-S CD
language conversations and taking turns to begin the conversation. Monitor but do not interrupt students' CD player 35
fluency. Make a note of any general problems to go over afterwards. board min
Everyday Listening
Exercise 1: Read aloud the advice about answering questions. Elicit synonyms and examples for
another topic, e.g. the topic of 'hobbies' (near-synonyms are 'pastimes, leisure activities, interests' and T-SS
examples are 'cycling, singing, photography').
Check listening
comprehension Exercise 2: Give students time to read through the questions before you play the recording. Play the T-SS
recording, twice if necessary, for students to listen and mark the sentences true (T) or false (F).
Exercise 3: Play the recording two or three times, pausing it after each sentence for students to listen T-SS
carefully. Check that students identify which sound disappears or changes in each sentence.
partFinal
Revise target Ending the lesson:
language Ask four Ss to read the dialogue aloud (assign roles). T-S SB 5 min
S-S
Homework: